On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
Tothwolf wrote:
Actually, these jpegs are great. I wish more
scanned documents were made
available in this format. Once I have my equipment set back up, I'll set
about processing them with OCR software. The author's block printing
should OCR well since his handwriting is very good. Once I have them OCR'd
I'll work on converting them to postscript.
JPEG is a lossy imaging format. You lose detail with this format.
Use something else!
These jpegs are of very high quality compared to the lossy/fuzzy images
usually found in pdf files. I would have stored the images as a Tiff
format files and gzip'd them if I had scanned these documents.
-Toth